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Prior to another Maine Forest Rally, My wife and I were helping Ted Goddard (the legendary organizer of that and other rallies, such as the Vermont Winter Rally Challenge and the Covered Bridge Rally).

We were setting up spectator areas beside logging roads in the middle of nowhere.

We had dinner in Errol, New Hampshire, and were supposed to follow Ted to the next area, somewhere in the Success Pond area.

Ted took off in his SUV up the hill into Maine at a high rate of speed.

Our Mercedes 404 Unimog radio van doesn't do "speed" up hills, so we lost sight of him.

The Mog gets 12 MPG. Both tanks (32 gallons total) and two jerry cans in the racks were full.

We did a grid search through most of the logging roads in that area, and finally, well after dark found where he had been.

So we drove over to Berlin to fuel up and go home. We had one jerry can left, and the tanks on fumes as we pulled into the Berlin Irving.